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More than a year ago, I suggested to Dr. Meldrum that he get together with Bill Munns and vice-versa to discuss the possibility of looking at the P/G film from both a positive angle and a negative angle. The thought was that the film and associated tracks/trackway provided both affirmative demonstration of the existence of an unclassified primate and quantifiable data that ruled out a mime in a suit (hoax). It was the same thing but from both sides of the bigfoot “coin”. Convincing arguments for the existence of a new species combined with convincing arguments that essentially ruled out a mime in a suit (hoax) provide compelling and overwhelming support that the subject in the film is indeed a subject worthy of serious scientific investigation.
On the positive or “heads” side Dr. Meldrum had demonstrated through his paper naming the tracks, that the subject of the film had left impressions in the soil which could be classified using the science of ichnotaxonomy having a unique suite of characteristics unlike any known primate. On the negative or “tails” side, Bill Munns had provided an analytical model, combined with his knowledge of Hollywood suit-making materials which could demonstrate the subject was outside the normal distribution for humans on several anatomical relationships and was clearly outside the probability of being a mime in a suit.

The two sides of the coin provide a compelling argument that some 42 years after-the-fact, the subject in the P/G film is most likely a real animal. It is also likely that the animal is the creature many others have reported seeing, whose tracks, hair and scat have been collected and found to be inconsistent with any known primate.

While we still cannot objectively confirm its’ existence from a scientific perspective, we should realize we have more than adequate data to begin serious scientific debate among mainstream science. If you were not fortunate enough to see the program, it is worth looking for repeat times – National Geographic Channel – “American Paranormal: Bigfoot”